Edwin A. Gomes

HARTFORD — A bipartisan bill that seeks greater accountability and transparency from the operators of the state's 22 public charter schools got resounding approval in both the Senate and the House Tuesday and will now move to the governor's desk. "I think it's critical if we are going to have charter schools and add charter schools ... that we have transparency," Sen. Beth Bye, co-chairwoman of the legislature's appropriations committee, said early Tuesday morning. "When you take public money and invest in anything, we need to have utter transparency." On Tuesday evening, the bill made it to the House where Rep. Andy Fleischmann, co-chairman of...

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HARTFORD — A bipartisan bill that seeks greater accountability and transparency from the operators of the state's 22 public charter schools got resounding approval in both the Senate and the House Tuesday and will now move to the governor's desk....

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"I think it's critical if we are going to have charter schools and add charter...

HARTFORD – Several Connecticut cities and towns are moving faster on the issue of police body cameras than the General Assembly, where lawmakers last week took conflicting actions on funding and a statewide body camera mandate.
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HARTFORD — The legislature's labor committee voted 6-4 Tuesday to advance a bill that would levy fees on large for-profit employers with low-wage workers.The measure, which would raise hundreds of millions of dollars a year for state coffers, would...

HARTFORD — There was deep frustration in the voices of minority lawmakers Thursday as they described the distrust and fear of police within Connecticut's black and Hispanic communities and their doubts about the pace of reform.
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HARTFORD — Former state Sen. Ernie Newton was sentenced to six months in prison Friday for violating campaign finance laws, but was able to walk out of the courthouse front door when Judge Julia D. Dewey put the sentence on hold pending Newton's...

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Ed Gomes is coming back to the state Capitol.
The former state senator declared victory on Tuesday night in an upset in a special election for his old seat in his hometown of Bridgeport.
Gomes has had health problems and is now 79 years old, but he said...

Bridgeport continues to challenge Waterbury as the home of the most embarrassing and bewildering politics in Connecticut. Former state Sen. Ernie Newton did last week what few in Connecticut politics have achieved: He subdued bumptious Working Families...

HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloydeclined Tuesday to take a position on Bridgeport Democrats' endorsement of a felon, former state Sen.Ernest E. Newton II, as a candidate for a state Senate seat – the same office that Newton was convicted in 2005 of...

Former state Sen. Ernie Newton, a convicted felon who served time in federal prison on corruption charges, won the Democratic endorsement Monday night for his old state Senate seat.Newton defeated the incumbent, Sen. Edwin Gomes, and state Rep. Andres...

HARTFORD — Gov.Dannel P. Malloyopened the 2012 legislative session Wednesday with plans for education reform, pension funding changes and the largest increase in funding for affordable housing since Gov. William A. O'Neill was in office more than 20 years...

Both chambers of the state legislature voted Wednesday night in favor of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's controversial plan to recruit the nonprofit Jackson Laboratory to Farmington with a $291 million offer to construct a new building and create 300 direct...